Vermont Map 1935 Pictorial Print - Burlington, Montpelier, Green Mountains

Green Mountains run the length of Vermont's page in Our U.S.A. A Gay Geography, flanked by scenes of maple syrup production, farming, and skiing, with Burlington and Montpelier marked among the state's towns. The page is one of forty-eight that Little, Brown and Company packed into this 1935 pictorial atlas, published in Boston with text by Frank J. Taylor and maps drawn by Ruth Taylor White, a Pratt Institute and Art Students League illustrator who filled each state's page with small drawings of local industries, landmarks, and pastimes. Vermont sits in the heart of New England, and in 1935 its economy remained tied to small dairy farms, maple sugaring, and the granite and marble quarries that had long defined its hill towns.

The Green Mountains form the map's spine, illustrated with stylized peaks and trees running vertically through the state's center. Burlington and Montpelier are marked among Vermont's towns, each paired with small scenes of local buildings and state government activity. Maple syrup production appears as one of the page's recurring images, alongside farming scattered across the lower elevations and skiing figures placed in the higher terrain. Town and county labels are set throughout the page in small decorative lettering, adding a layer of geographic detail beneath the illustrations. A decorative border marks Vermont's neighboring states and the Canadian frontier to the north, situating the state within the wider region. The page reads as a portrait of a small, mountainous state built around its farms and forests.

Roots in the Green Mountains are reason enough to want this one, whether that means a Vermonter who moved away from Burlington or Montpelier and misses home, or a collector building the full set of this 1935 state-by-state series. Its playful, densely illustrated style captures Vermont's rural character with real period warmth rather than a dry survey map, a small window into how the state saw itself between the wars. It is available unframed in a range of sizes, from a small study print to a larger piece suited to a cabin or study wall.